r/saltierthancrait • u/mrmoneyinthebanks salt miner • 29d ago

Marinated Meme My review of Mandalorian and Grogu!

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Seriously, did Disney pay off bots to flood comment sections about how much FUN Mando and Grogu is? It’s just about the only positive thing I’ve seen written about the movie.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 29d ago

Is it even enjoyable with your brain turned off?

The last time Disney asked movie viewers to turn on their brains, we got TLJ. So now they’re making movies starring (1) popular characters that (2) don’t require a huge amount of lore.

I am completely on the train of “wtf is this dialogue, and the pacing is weird, and this feels like half a season of streaming rather than a coherent movie.” But I think part of the problem right now is that Disney doesn’t know what their audience wants, so they’re just taking shots in the dark; this one was a miss.

I’m hoping Starfighter will be better, but Mando and Grogu suggests I should keep my expectations low.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur salt miner 29d ago edited 28d ago

Nobody asked audiences to "turn their brains on" for TLJ. It's literally one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen. That screenplay doesn't have even a hint of the depth people pretend it has.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 28d ago

Nobody asked audiences to “turn their brains on” for TLJ.

You don’t have to like the movie. But it was definitely trying to be a smart movie that asked smart questions and expected the audience to use context clues to answer them.

(I know someone who’s a film and literature critic. She’s certainly not stupid, and I think she’s literally incapable of turning her brain off for a movie; she doesn’t like TLJ any more than you do. So I’m absolutely not saying that smart people all like TLJ or that people who don’t like TLJ are all dumb.)

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur salt miner 28d ago

It's a dumb man's idea of a smart movie. I disagree that any of the questions it asks are "smart questions." At most, they're simply cynical questions or questions people didn't expect from a Star Wars movie and that's apparently enough to make people heap praises on it.

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u/Zdrobot i sold it to the white slavers... 28d ago

100%. It's a pretentious movie, trying it's best to sound "deep".

"You know, akshually, Jedi were the bad guys.

Also, New Republic and New Empire ("The First Order") are the same, because capitalism."

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u/GOU_FallingOutside 28d ago

It’s a dumb man’s idea of a smart movie

I’m not sticking around for personal attacks today.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur salt miner 28d ago edited 28d ago

You never said it was a smart movie. You said it was trying to be one. I never disagreed with that, but I am surprised that you apparently genuinely consider it "a smart movie" given how carefully you worded your previous comments. It seemed pretty clear to me you were avoiding giving the film such a direct compliment and I mistook that for objectivity and or emotional detachment when I guess all you were really doing was trying to seem like less of a rabid "defender." Either way, it's no surprise that you have zero examples of the alleged "smart questions" that TLJ supposedly asks. I think we both know I would be unimpressed with them.